Careers based on lies

Madam,

Character assassination is on the increase in the country as aspiring politicians and incumbent leaders vie for political power. Sadly, every politician is guilty of this heinous and sinister strategy.

Lies and half-truths, laced with political venom, are now on graphic display as the nation enters election mode. The attack on leaders in high-profile positions is tantamount to character assassination. It is a particularly repugnant tactic, and has been extensively deployed throughout our history. Politicians lie, they come from different backgrounds and their careers are based on a battery of lies, they still have the bra]en audacity to engage in disgusting acts of character assassination based on crudely manufactured deceptive trash.

ALLEGATIONS

8nfounded allegations are levelled to discredit public figures in a hysteric atmosphere. Slander, distortion, fabrication and sophistry are the tools of the trade.

$dolf +itler’s Propaganda Minister -oseph Goebbels believed that the bigger the lie, the more convincing. Italian author and philosopher 1iccolz Machiavelli taught that the ends Mustify the means. %oth µprinciples’ are applied in character assassination.The barrage of accusations is libellous and can cause damage that no retraction can erase. )abricating lies is not Must a disease of our era but it is a cancerous syndrome that has eaten, plundered and ravaged the entire kingdom’s body-politics.

2ur politics should not be turned into contests for the determination of who can insult the most, lie the most, scandalise the most and malign the most. The power game in our nation has no rules.

If the spirit of the primacy of common good were to animate all our politicians, we would not be witnessing character assassinations, slander and malice in our political campaigns which leave the public dismayed and disheartened.

Farouk